Pneumaitc tire.



Patented 0017-. 31, 1916.

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NEW "YORK, Il. Y., A CGRPOBIATION OF NEW YORK.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

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Application filed June 23, 1913. Serial No. 775.267. f

To all fio/tomet may coaccra:

Be it .known that I, Janes D. Tnw,'a citizen of the United States, residing at Akron, in the county ofSuininit and State of Ohio, have invented vcerta in new and useful Improvements in Pneumatic Tires, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to pneumatic tire casings in which the primary strain-resisting members ofthe carcass consist of transyerse cords as distinguished from canvas or woven fabric. An example of such a tire is shown in the Gray and Sloper Patent No. 748,858 of January 5, 190i, representing a form of the Well-known Palmer cord tire.

As usually constructed, these tires have the ends of the cords (of which there are two layers running diagonally across the tire from edge to edge, the cords of one layer crossing those of the other approximately at right-angles) looped around metal pins or staples, the prongs of which project into a groove or crevice in the bead and thereby anchor the cords mechanically to the bead. In practical experience with such tires, I have found that there is a tendency to chaing or wearing away of the outer layers of cords adjacent to the flange of the wheel rim, ldue to the pivoting or working of the cords against the rimat and from their points of anchorage, this pivoting being produced by the dcforming strains to which the inflated tire is subjected in normal use.

In the ordinary' tire. having a carcass made of layers of canvas, it is a comparatively simple matter to prevent this form of chafing (which is distinguishable from rim-cub.

ting dueto lack of iniiation or insuliicient inliation) by stiflenlng the side layers of tabric with rubber having a high percentage of sulfur, but I find that method unsatisfactory in a cord tire.

The present invention has for its object to remedy the. rin'i-chaing heretofore experrienced in a normally-inflated tire ofthe cord type, and I accomplish this object by the means which I shall ,now proceed to describe and claim.

This application is in part a continuation of my application Serial No. 6-l6,209, led

August 26, 1911.

Figure I of the accompanying drawings represents asectional perspectire view of a cord-tire casing of the clencher type constructed according to my invention, and F ig.

locked with the beads and forming a mechanical fastening between the latter and the cords.

1G is the rubber layer covering the tread and sides of the carcass.

The beads are usually molded out of rubberized fabric, and when in place are bound with one or more layers of rubberized fabric 1T. The cords themselves are also preferably impregnated with rubber, and when the casing is vulcanized the whole becomes welded into an integral, flexible-sided, stili'- beaded structure in the well-known manner.

`In carrying out my invention, I provide each of the beads 15 with an upward extension or flange 1S, lying against the outer side of the outer layer of cords 11 and united thereto by the welding action of the rubber, of which a thin layer -is shown at 19, inserted or caused to flow between the cords and the bead flange. In they usual construction, without this flange, the cords work back and forth, or circumferentially, to a llimited eX- tent, against the flange of the wheel-rim, and soon become chafed and worn away. The bead-flange interpcses a shield between the rim-flange and the cords, and also, by reason of the welding or ccmenting together ofthe rubberized cords and bead-flange, which takes place by vulcanization, the working or pivoting of the cords at and from their extremities is to a certain'extent overcome and transferred to a line outside the rim-flange, namely at or about the edge of the bead-flange 18. I findthat this simple expedient greatly vincreases the durability of the tires.

It will be understood that I do not conne myself to the exact details of bead shape, form of anchorage, etc., here shown.

I claim:

l. A rubber tire casing comprising a carcass in which the primary strain-resisting structure consists of transverse cords having' a limited pivotal movement circumferentially of the tire,rcaused by the deformation to which the latter is subjected in running, and bead-cores secured to the ends of the cords and formed with flanges of a substantial thickness extending radially outward` on the outer sides ofY the outermost layer of cords to a line beyond the line of contact with the flange of the wheel rim, and united to the cords by rubber, whereby a shield is interposed between the rim flange and said layer of cords and the working of the innermost portionsof the cords is reduced.

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